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training
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Written by Joe Halpin
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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
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I just came across a great article by Ben Horowitz (Netscape, Loudcloud, Adreessen Horowitz) on Why Startups Should Train Their People . Ben's not a trainer, but a manager, CEO, and venture capitalist. And he comes at this from a practical point-of-view, which makes it much more powerful. There are some great nuggets here for us trainers, instructional designers, and performance improvement professionals. Maybe some things we have forgotten over the years? Simple things, such as clearly setting expectations during the training of how/why/and when what is learned should be put into practice. My favorite part of the article is when Ben states: "Ironically, the biggest inhibitor to putting a training program in place is the perception that it will take too much time. Keep in mind, that there is no investment that you can make that will do more to improve productivity in your company. Therefore, being too busy to train is the moral equivalent of being too hungry to eat."
The advice in this article can be applied to any company, not just startup companies. So spread this one around to all your clients and potential clients. |
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design
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Written by Joe Halpin
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010 |
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If you are using multiplayer games to train and improve performance, just like anything else there is a recipe for success. This great article by Byron Reeves and J. Leighton Read over at the ASTD Learning Circuits blog identifies the Ten Ingredients of Great Games . The article is a quick read and guaranteed to have place in your design toolbox. And the top ten are... - Self-Representation with Avatars
- Three-Dimensional Environments
- Narrative Context
- Feedback
- Reputations, Ranks, and Levels
- Marketplaces and Economies
- Competition Under Rules that Are Explicit and Enforced
- Teams
- Parallel Communications Systems That Can Be Easily Reconfigured
- Time Pressure
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tools
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Written by Joe Halpin
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 |
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PowerPoint slides are a given for any type of presentation these days to such an extent that we have all seen the same slide designs thouands of times. If you want to ditch the same basic PowerPoint template you've been using for the past several years and you need some fresh design ideas, Slidefinder.net is your friend. 
Essentially, Slidefinder crawls the web for PowerPoint presentations based on a keyword or words you provide. When it finishes crawling, it presents it's findings as thumbnails. Postion your pointer over a thumbnail and a summary for that slide and the presentation it belongs to appears. When you click on a thumbnail, Slidefinder loads thumbnails of each slide in the set. You also have the option to embed a preview of the presentation in your own site. Slidefinder can also be added as a search engine in your browser and as an add-in for PowerPoint. |
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development
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Written by Joe Halpin
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Friday, 08 January 2010 |
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You want to know one way to not run a project (training or otherwise)? Read this great article on the downfall of the popular Duke Nukem video game by Clive Thompson in the January issue of Wired .  |
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tools
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Written by Joe Halpin
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
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Do you need to incorporate DVD video content in your training materials? Well, thanks to DVD Knife (thanks Lifehacker for the heads up) you can quickly grab (with proper permission of course) only the clip you need from any DVD. Just mark your start and end points and DVD Knife does the rest. You'll need to convert the resulting VOB file to a video format you can use with your project. 
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